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Senior Security Engineer

5 Months ago • 2 Years + • Cyber Security

Job Details

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!

At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about finding innovative solutions to complex technical problems, running countless experiments (300+ at a time!) with our massive user base to make data-driven decisions, and educating our users and employees alike. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities, mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds, and a variety of projects with large scopes — while doing work that’s both fun and meaningful. 

Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.


About the role

Join Duolingo as a Security Engineer and play a pivotal role in safeguarding our systems, employees, learner data, and services across our rapidly-growing language learning platform. With over 650 employees and 21 million daily active users, your expertise will be critical in maintaining the highest security standards, while continuously enhancing our infrastructure security and ensuring compliance.

 

  You will...

  • Design and develop scalable monitoring and response systems for security alerts to proactively mitigate risks
  • Continuously evaluate Duolingo's security posture, anticipating future threats and devising appropriate countermeasures
  • Collaborate with development teams to conduct threat modeling, identify risks, and provide guidance on mitigations
  • Be a partner to our security champions, organizing and growing the program across Duolingo to ensure the efficient distribution of security knowledge
  • Implement dependency checks for open-source software within applications
  • Participate in regular product security tabletops with organizational partners
  • Work on deploying early alerting systems throughout our environment and the responsive automations that trigger when they alert
  • Develop a continuous verification and testing system for security controls and critical features
  • Work with our partners in finance to ensure we maintain compliance with our regulatory obligations
  • Collaborate with IT to improve the security of our offboarding processes by introducing automation and well documented procedures

 

  You have...

  • Experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting security scanning tools in the CI/CD pipeline
  • Familiarity with Linux system administration, automation, and Python programming
  • A desire to learn more about security and develop the foundational building blocks of the program
  • Strong collaboration, emotional intelligence, and communication skills

 

Requirements... 

  • A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field
  • Proven experience developing and maintaining microservices
  • 2+ years working on collaborative development teams
  • Experience in product, application, or cloud security
  • Willingness to work in both backend engineering and operational engineering dependent on the needs of the organization

 

  Exceptional candidates will have...

  • Familiarity with containerization runtimes (Docker, rkt)
  • Experience securing a large infrastructure on AWS
  • Threat modeling experience across various architectures and understand how to align those with business goals
  • Demonstrable experience in designing and managing multi-account cloud environments
  • Experience communicating sophisticated technical requirements to audiences of variable technical sophistication
  • Experience working in Terraform, developing modules and creating secure by default configurations
  • Familiarity with security scanning tools such as SemGrep, Nuclei, Trufflehog, and Checkov

Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.

We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact your recruiter.

Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.

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About The Company

Duolingo is the world’s most popular way to learn a language. Our mission is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available.


Founded in 2011 by Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker, Duolingo is the most downloaded education app in the history of the App Store and in 2019 became the top-grossing education app worldwide. The app has been awarded Apple's iPhone App of the Year and Android's Best of the Best.


Learning a new language used to be expensive; we believe it should be free. Over 1.2 billion people are learning a second language and most of them are learning English to improve their lives.


Learning a new language is hard; we believe it can be fun. We use bite-sized lessons that feel like playing a game to keep our learners motivated. 


With over 500 million learners we have unprecedented data insights on how people learn. Our teams of language learning scientists, machine learning engineers, and AI experts use this data to constantly improve our effectiveness. We’re building a future in which the highest-quality education is accessible to all. 


Duolingo has raised US $138 million from investors including Union Square Ventures, Capital G (formerly Google Capital), NewView Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Drive Capital, Ashton Kutcher and Tim Ferriss.


Duolingo has been named to: BuiltIn's Best Places to Work (2023), Fast Company Best Workplaces for Innovators (2022), Fast Company 10 Most Innovative Education Company (2022), Best Machine Learning Startups for by Glassdoor (2020), Forbes' "Next Billion Dollar Startups" (2019), CNBC's Disruptor 50 (2018, 2019), Fortune's "Change the World" list (2019), TIME Magazine's Genius Companies (2018), Fast Company's "Most Innovative Companies" (2017, 2018, 2020), Inc.'s "Best Places to Work" (2018), Entrepreneur's "Top Company Cultures" (2018).

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